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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: J. J. Thomson, Ben Elton, Anthony Burgess, Arthur Eddington, James Chadwick, Alun Lewis, Phil Woolas, Rik Mayall, Steve Dixon, Benedict Cumberbatch, Liam Byrne, Adrian Edmondson, Dafydd Wigley, David Aaronovitch, James Drake, Paul Abbott, Bob Spink, John Cockcroft, Dale Smith, Andrew Stunell, Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton, Rhodes Boyson, Sydney Chapman, Kirsty Williams, Toby Hadoke, Philip Craven, Tai Solarin, Frederic Henry Gravely, Harold Davenport, Mark Hendrick, Lawrence Freedman, John Griffith Vaughan, Michael Bishop, John Charnley, George Simpson, George Harwood, Euros Lyn, Tom Kilburn, Dora Marsden, James L. Tuck, Carole Goble, Nazir Ahmed, James Anderton, Sophie Aldred, Alexandra Burslem, George Cunningham, Harold Perkin, Charlotte Raven, Charlotte Keatley, Glenn White, India Fisher, Frank Cooke, Frederic Calland Williams, Benjamin Pollard, Alan Wood, Alan Rector, Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley, John Harman, Ronald Wilfried Gurney, Jawid Mojaddedi, Ian Horrocks, Julius Dreschfeld, Claus Bock. Excerpt: John Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 - 22 November 1993) - who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess - was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works. It was adapted into a highly controversial 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He was a prominent critic, writing acclaimed studies of classic writers such as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway. In 2008, The Times placed Burgess number 17 on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since...